Koṭuṅkalūr, donation, time of Kampavikramavarman, year (3)2

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Current Version:  draft, 2024-04-22Z

Editor:   Emmanuel Francis.

DHARMA Identifier: INSPallava00233

Summary: Donation after sale by a villagers assembly.

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Medial u and ū interchangeable. Initial vowel I used instead of yi.

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    1svasti śrī


    2kō-vicaiya-kampa-vi-
    3kkira-mapa¡t!⟨n⟩ma⟨ṟ⟩ku yāṇ-
    4ṭu (3) 10 2 Āvatu

    I-
    5v-vūr-k kāṭantai na-
    6kkaṉ caṭaiyaṉukku-
    7-k kāviṭṭ’ ¡u!⟨ū⟩rōm Iv(v-ū)-
    8(r) [2*] viṭa viṟṟu-k ku-
    9ṭut(tō)m

    I-dhanmaṅ keṭut-
    10(tāṉ) keṅk(ai)¡I!⟨yi⟩ṭai-k kumari¡I!⟨yi⟩-
    11ṭai-c ceytāṉ pāva-
    12[...]

    [ca. 1 line lost]

    Translation by Emmanuel Francis

    1 Prosperity! Fortune!

    2-4 (Tirthy)-second year of the victorious king Kampavikramvarman. 

    4-9 To Kāṭantai Nakkaṉ Caṭaiyaṉ of this village, we, the villagers of Kāviṭu we have given after selling [...]

    9-12 He who destroys this pious act [will incur] the sin of he does that between the Ganges and Kumari.

    Bibliography

    Edited in Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943 (SII 12, no. 111); text and summary in Mahalingam 1988 (IP no. 233); encoded and first translated here for DHARMA (ERC n° 809994) by Emmanuel Francis (2022), based on previous editions.

    Primary

    Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. 1943. South Indian Inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with Introductory Notes in English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press.
    Page 52, № 111. [siglum VVA]
    Mahalingam, T. V. 1988. Inscriptions of the Pallavas. New Delhi; Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research; Agam Prakashan.
    Page 590, № 233. [siglum IP]

    Secondary

    ARIE 1923-1924. Page 53, appendix C/1924, № 144.